(93) was at the nest, I left them in peace. I had timed Brown-eyes' respiration (by watching her tail move) at 50 per minute just before I put my hand on her. AKKAK Immediately afterwards it was the same except for a few seconds, when it was faster. Her excitement did not, therefore, last long. This nest is so well surrounded by dense growth, that, in order to reach into it, I have to mark push my hand through it like a snake. It speaks well for the courage of these birds to stand their ground against such an apparition. Of course they have plenty of warning that something is approaching. If I could feel plenty of legs and feet and one egg under Brown-eyes, but did not like to make a more thorough examination as I did not know how long it might result in their being uncovered, as evidentlyx it looks as if Green-eyes might not come soon if I frightened his mate away. At 3:40, when I again visited the nest, Green-eyes was on it. Brown-eyes was on the bank near the nest and showed that she cherished no resentment against me by coming promptly, standing on my hand and eating. In two or three minutes she called and started for the nest. She had ten feet to go and I had a hundred. When I got there she was well settled, but did not resent my feeling around under her, without, however, my finding anything new. They are on the fourteenth day of incubation. If there are no young by tomorrow noon, my guess will be that these eggs are also duds. There was no sign of food being carried to the nest today. At the time of this last change both of the birds had reversed their positions in the nest. (The robins are lining their nest with mud mixed with vegetable matter. A lump of this material is placed in the enst, then the bird raises her bill toward the sky, crosses her wings (to get them out of the way) then pushes her breast against